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Victor Hernandez Cruz Poems
- Latin & Soul some waves a wave of now ...
- Side 19 The Empire State Building Is on 63rd Street Ramon ...
- Two Guitars Two guitars were left in a room all alone They ...
- El Poema de lo Reverso In which everything goes backwards in...
- Dolores Street Through the Victorians spinning a wool of ...
- Vigo Martin In a city that now floats in a bottle, In a ...
- Problems with Hurricanes A campesino looked at the air And ...
Victor Hernandez Cruz was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. He moved to New York City with his family when he was five years old, but he didn’t start learning English until two years later when his family bought a television set. He started writing poetry early and at seventeen self-published his first book, Papo Got His Gun! And Other Poems, on a mimeograph machine. Since then, more than a dozen collections of his poems—among them Snaps (1969); By Lingual Wholes (1982); Red Beans (1991); Rhythm, Content, and Flavor: New and Selected Poems (1989); and The Mountain in the Sea (2006)—have been published by traditional publishing houses. He is a member of the Nuyorican movement of writers. ... more »
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Latin & Soul
for Joe Bataan
some waves
a wave of now
a trombone speaking to you
a piano is trying to break a molecule
is trying to lift the stage into orbit
around the red spotlights
a shadow
the shadows of dancers
dancers they are dancing falling
out that space made for dancing
they should dance
on the tables they should
dance inside of their drinks
they should dance on the
ceiling they should dance/dance
thru universes
leaning-moving
...
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